GOGGLEBOX star Amy Tapper has revealed her diet overhaul which helped her lose seven and a half stone, and also how she wants to be on fat jabs “for life”.
It comes after Amy, 25, opened up to The Sun about her decision to go on weight loss medication.
Gogglebox’s Amy Tapper looked slimmer than ever on GMB today[/caption]
Amy is pictured here before her dramatic weight loss[/caption]
Amy with her family when they were on Gogglebox[/caption]
The popular TV star, who shot to fame with her family on the first ever series of Gogglebox, has been keeping fans up-to-date with her weight loss.
As well as shedding a whopping seven and a half stone, Amy has dropped four dress sizes in just 12 months.
Today she appeared on Good Morning Britain talk about her use of the weight loss jab, Mounjaro.
Amy praised the injection for giving her “peace” for once in her life.
But she did have a warning to others considering using a fat jab.
“I think a lot of the way that people look at the injections is that it’s a quick fix, everything like that. And it is. It’s very quick,” Amy said.
“But it’s not fixing you forever. Because the minute you come off of it, my body’s just going to start doing exactly what it was doing before. Which means that, yeah.”
The Channel 4 star then revealed her plans for long term use of fat jabs.
“I will be on it for life. I mean, obviously, we will look through it and we’ll see as we go along,” she said.
“We don’t know what can happen. But the plan is, I’m on the highest dose at the moment.”
As well as using the jab, Amy revealed she has been maintaining a healthy diet, which includes lots of protein and fresh food.
The star also talked about due to the affect of the jab, which makes people feel fuller, she often will only have either lunch or dinner, not both.
WEIGHT LOSS SECRET
Last month, Amy revealed to The Sun the secret to her incredible weight loss.
After keeping quiet about exactly how she’s shed the pounds, we were the first people she told that she’d had help from a fat jab.
She said: “I’ve gone to doctors all my life and they can never tell me the problem – because there’s actually nothing wrong with me.
“My bloods are always amazing, I haven’t got polycystic ovaries, I haven’t got a thyroid problem and I haven’t got anything that usually makes you put on weight. It is just genetics.”
Continuing, she said: “I felt there was nothing else I could do,”
In June last year, her doctor introduced her to Mounjaro.
Amy has been keeping fans up-to-date with her wight loss[/caption]
She has been taking a 15mg weekly dose since February which she worked her way up to from 2.5mg.
Amy told us: “I’m fitting into size 18 clothes for the first time since I was 15 or 16 – it’s hard for me to believe.
“It’s changed my life. I went to the theatre the other night and when I sat down, my thighs weren’t touching the person next to me, or the sides of the chairs. I had room.”
However she added: “I get annoyed though that some people call it the ‘lazy way out’.
“I don’t want people to think that I’ve sat around for the last 17 years of my life not trying to lose weight.
“I want people to know that this has been my only option to get this far.”
Since starting her weight loss journey, the reality star has also been sharing selfies with fans which show off her shrinking frame.
Amy recently showed off her slimmer than ever figure[/caption]
The reality star revealed she’s had help from a weight loss pen[/caption]
FAD DIETS
Amy also revealed how before switching to a fat jab, she had tried every fad diet known to man, in a bid to lose weight.
She told The Sun that trying to slim down had been a lifelong battle.
The star revealed she was trapped in a vicious cycle of losing some weight, only to put it all back on again.
“I have done every single diet under the sun,” Amy said.
In 2021, she lost weight, but then found it hard to continuing shedding the pounds: “Once I got over that 3st mark, it would take me a month to lose another pound.
“I would be really good all week, I would work out, and I would lose nothing. So then it was just like: ‘What’s the point?’”
Everything you need to know about fat jabs
Weight loss jabs are all the rage as studies and patient stories reveal they help people shed flab at almost unbelievable rates, as well as appearing to reduce the risk of serious diseases.
Wegovy – a modified version of type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic – and Mounjaro are the leading weight loss injections used in the UK.
Wegovy, real name semaglutide, has been used on the NHS for years while Mounjaro (tirzepatide) is a newer and more powerful addition to the market.
Mounjaro accounts for most private prescriptions for weight loss and is set to join Wegovy as an NHS staple this year.
How do they work?
The jabs work by suppressing your appetite, making you eat less so your body burns fat for energy instead and you lose weight.
They do this my mimicking a hormone called GLP-1, which signals to the brain when the stomach is full, so the drugs are officially called GLP-1 receptor agonists.
They slow down digestion and increase insulin production, lowering blood sugar, which is why they were first developed to treat type 2 diabetes in which patients’ sugar levels are too high.
Can I get them?
NHS prescriptions of weight loss drugs, mainly Wegovy and an older version called Saxenda (chemical name liraglutide), are controlled through specialist weight loss clinics.
Typically a patient will have to have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher, classifying them as medically obese, and also have a weight-related health condition such as high blood pressure.
GPs generally do not prescribe the drugs for weight loss.
Private prescribers offer the jabs, most commonly Mounjaro, to anyone who is obese (BMI of 30+) or overweight (BMI 25-30) with a weight-related health risk.
Private pharmacies have been rapped for handing them out too easily and video calls or face-to-face appointments are now mandatory to check a patient is being truthful about their size and health.
Are there any risks?
Yes – side effects are common but most are relatively mild.
Around half of people taking the drug experience gut issues, including sickness, bloating, acid reflux, constipation and diarrhoea.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, GP and clinical consultant at patient.info, said: “One of the more uncommon side effects is severe acute pancreatitis, which is extremely painful and happens to one in 500 people.”
Other uncommon side effects include altered taste, kidney problems, allergic reactions, gallbladder problems and hypoglycemia.
Evidence has so far been inconclusive about whether the injections are damaging to patients’ mental health.
Figures obtained by The Sun show that, up to January 2025, 85 patient deaths in the UK were suspected to be linked to the medicines.
